SEC. 2-131. POWERS AND DUTIES.

   The powers and duties of the cultural arts commission shall be as follows:

   (A)   Advise the city council on all matters pertaining to the cultural arts in the community;

   (B)   Recommend to the city council the adoption, amendment or repeal of ordinances regarding public art, and/or art related projects and proposals;

   (C)   Assist the cultural arts community in raising funds through grants or other sources for the development, growth, incorporation, and expansion of the arts;

   (D)   Provide a local, state and national network of support and supporters of the local arts;

   (E)   Build a growth continuum of education, training and arts to develop an incubator for home grown evaluators and evaluation training tools so that congruity among mission, vision and requirements of requests for proposals matches skills assessed by evaluators in the review process;

   (F)   Develop public arts projects that include developing written materials for soliciting participation, appointing and training selection panels, and reviewing and recommending funding to ensure integrity of such processes;

   (G)   Receive recommendations from ad-hoc local panels to review art actions in conjunction with the commission;

   (H)   Recommend to the city council the distribution of revenues collected through fund raising, grants and public art funds consistent with the needs of the community, including solicitation and analysis of cultural arts grant proposals;

   (I)   Participate in the development of the strategic annual public art plan and longer-ranged strategic public art plans;

   (J)   Cooperate with other commissions and civic organizations in order to promote, market, and publicize the arts in order to increase and foster public interest in the arts; and

   (K)   Perform other art, cultural and arts education duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the city council.

(Ord. No. 2886, 2957)

ARTICLE III. DEPARTMENTS

DIVISION I. CITY ATTORNEY

SEC. 2-135. APPOINTMENT OF CITY ATTORNEY.

   The city attorney shall be appointed by a majority vote of the city council and shall hold office at the pleasure of the city council.

(`64 Code, Sec. 2-5)

SEC. 2-136. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST OF FORMER EMPLOYEES.

   (A)   No former city employee designated herein shall, within one year after termination of employment, for compensation represent or advise any person in any proceeding to which the city is a party if the proceeding is one in which the former employee participated as a city employee.

   (B)   The terms used in subsection (A) shall be defined as follows:

      (1)   “City employee designated herein” shall mean any city officer or employee in any of the following classifications:

         (a)   City council member;

         (b)   City manager;

         (c)   Assistant city manager;

         (d)   Deputy city manager;

         (e)   City attorney;

         (f)   Assistant city attorney;

         (g)   Chief assistant city attorney;

         (h)   Deputy city attorney;

         (i)   Development services director;

         (j)   Community development director;

         (k)   City planner;

         (l)   Principal planner;

         (m)   Building official;

         (n)   Plan check engineer;

         (o)   Supervising building inspector;

         (p)   Code enforcement official;

         (q)   Chief financial officer;

         (r)   Housing director;

         (s)   Public works director.

      (2)   “Termination of employment” shall mean voluntary termination, involuntary termination, resignation at the city's request, or retirement.

      (3)   “Proceeding to which the city is a party” shall mean any application for any permit or entitlement, contract, claim, investigation, negotiation, purchase and sale, or any other matter involving the discretionary powers and responsibilities of the city or entities governed by the city council.

      (4)   “Participated” means to have taken part personally and substantially at a policy level in the proceeding through decision, recommendation, investigation, or use of confidential information.

      (5)   The term “policy level” shall include fact finding, recommending, analyzing and other activities which would foreseeably influence the decision or result in the proceeding.

   (C)   Subsection (A) shall not apply to the furnishing of technical, expert, or specialized services to the city by a former city employee at the city's request.

   (D)   In addition to any other available remedy, the city may decline to deal with and may refuse to approve the entitlement sought by any person represented or advised by a former city employee in violation of this section.

(`64 Code, Sec. 2-6) (Ord. No. 1886, 1964, 2004, 2062, 2107, 2137, 3031)